An Offer they Can't Refuse

[Knight Errant]

Steve stared dumbly for a few minutes... before looking away, face beet red! "Th-thats impossible! No way that...." He mutters... his protests dieing out as he looks down and sees his flatter looking crotch again... He starts breathing a bit fast. "How..." He asks again... "And.. why? Why would they... I... do they think they can get away with it?!" He says, his voice sounding a bit panicky.

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Steve begins applying lotion to his chest! It is absorbed quickly into his smooth, hairless chest... and within moments, both of his 'breasts' begin tingling strongly... she couldn't help but think her nipples were a bit unresponsive... but that probably meant she needed extra work!

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Will frowned at her nipples. Oh well, she could just give them a little extra love, he supposed. She reached over and got a little more lotion and worked her nipples a little more carefully as she revelled in the strong tingles going through her breasts. "I bet Melissa just loves this stuff."

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Hannah reaches down and puts her shorts back on before sitting down on the bed next to Steve. "They get away with it all the time, because they own you. Either you learn to deal with becoming a woman, or they kill you. I was just as happy being a guy as you are now. I'd much rather fill out a bikini than a coffin." She rubs Steve's back slowly. "As for the why? They're a casino. They need girls. They need a lot more girls than guys. There are a lot more guys that get in trouble with the Family than there are girls. Throw some money at scientists, fake the deaths of some poor schlubs, and presto, all the girls the casino could ever want, all under a life or death contract."

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Steve relaxes slightly... which means he is no longer an inch from completely freaking out. His brain races frantically. "They can't seriously... I mean... how do they expect me to just..." He slumps... looking at the floor. "God damnit... what am I going to do..."

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Finally Will begins feeling her nipples get with the program... they were a bit sore, but she could live with that. They poke out slightly from his flat chest... as the flesh beneath them slowly looks a bit swollen. Will could almost squeal with glee, its working!

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Will did squeal with glee! He continued to massage what was left of the cream into her breasts. As she did, Will felt that nagging thought in the back of his head. No, it said. Stop, it said. It felt so good to feel the cream working, to feel the strong tingles in her budding chest, but the voice made Will hesitate. Just what was he doing? He blinked, and tried to think straight.

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Hannah pulls Steve's face to hers. "You're going to live. They want to play games with your life, you have to do what it takes to win. If you don't do everything on your schedule, you lose. If you do terribly and stay here for months training and end up with a low paying job, you lose. But," she says, jiggling his head for effort. "If you do well, if you show them your enthusiasm, you get a higher paying job. You pay off your debt, and you shove that contract down their pizza lined throats." Hannah keeps her lips tight together, and her brilliant green eyes have a fiery hatred shining in them.

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Steve is silent... wordless in the face of her...fury. He had seen Hannah sad, timid, happy... but never angry... he cant help but think her eyes are beautiful when they are angry... he shoves his thoughts aside, finding his voice. "Do you think you... we, can do that? Beat them at their own game?" The price sounded high... but if it was going to be lost one way or the other...

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As Will thinks... and as he has stopped reading the magazine, the walls of femininity around his mind begin cracking... eventually it comes down in a massive pile... leaving him... or her... dazed and confused... no longer sure if he was male or of she was female... All that remains are his hands on her chest... lying still against his budding breasts.

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Will blinked for maybe a minute. He looked down at his hands and lifted them up a little to see the budding girlish flesh. She definitely had breasts, if very small, pubescent ones. But Will remembered always being a man. A man would never look so flat in her short shorts, she reasoned. He was still a man where it counted though. Will teetered back and forth, unsure of what he or she was. Eventually, Will fell to his knees, and she started to cry her eyes out.
"What am I?"

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"To me, there isn't any other choice. Every other option leaves them with complete control over you." Hannah continues to rub Steve's back, and leans herself against his shoulder. Her body is so soft against his. "I'm telling you now, this is the hard road. You can simply go through the motions kicking and screaming, and you'll still leave this place. But if you're willing to really get into this, make this new woman you'll become your own, you'll have a chance at freedom."

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Steve hugs Hannah back tightly... sighing. "I need to... think about this for awhile..." He says finally...

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As Will sits there, crying in confusion... a background noise that had been going on for the past half hour or so suddenly cuts off... The soft roar from the bathroom ends... followed by a little splash, the sound of someone exiting the tub... then the quiet swirl of water draining... Melissa is getting out of the tub! Maybe she could help?

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Melissa! She could help her! Will looked down and saw the strangeness of his body. He couldn't show her, she'd only laugh! She'd never understand what she was going through! Will quickly put his shirt back on and started buttoning it up from the bottom. She would have to be proud of her new breasts another time. For now, he would have to hide them from her friend.

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Hannah nods. "I'll give you a few minutes, but we have to go to dinner soon. Take all the time you need to sort it out." She kisses him on the cheek again and stands up. "Whatever choice you make, I'll try to help you as best I can." She gives him a sad smile, and leaves Steve's room.

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Steve is left alone in his room... the TV still on... he reaches over, turning it off and then jumping on the bed to lie down... folding his arms behind his head and trying to think. And trying not to think on how utterly screwed he was...

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Melissa opens the door, steam wafting out. She is wearing a pink bathrobe that looks rather nice on her. She looks over to Will. "Heya." She says... then tilts her head. "Are you okay?" She asks.

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Will turned to see her. His eyes were puffy and red from crying, and his cheeks were still wet. Looking at her in that pink bathrobe, she looked so pretty. A part of Will wanted that, to be soft like her. "Melissa... I don't know who I am anymore." He opened his arms and started crying again, desperate for her to make it better somehow.

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Well, at least he'd have the right equipment to be screwed... No, that was the wrong train of thought. Well, what options did Steve have? He could openly defy the Family, but that would get him killed. He could try to escape. That would take time and planning. He'd have to get everything done in less than a week, or he'd be a woman anyways. Plus, he'd never heard of anything that would be able to reverse what was happening to him, so even if he did manage to escape, he'd be stuck somewhere in between. Hannah mentioned something about faking deaths too. So most likely everyone he knew thought he was dead anyways.

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Steve frowns... as it seems that Hannah's plan was probably the only one that would work. He didnt know where they had taken him... escaping would be very difficult. And even if he did... he would be alone, cut off from everything, and with the Family hunting him down. He didn't like those odds...

Sighing... he reaches over and grabs Alice. Shifting onto his stomach as he starts reading again... waiting for Hannah to come back.

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Melissa blinks... then rushes over, pulling Will into a soft hug. "Will! What do you mean... are you... okay?" She says, her face full of worry.

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"I don't know. I read one of your magazines, and I just..." Will broke down and sobbed. As he hugged Melissa, she could feel a little of softness from Will as his small breasts pushed against her.

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As Steve read, he once again found himself relating to Alice. Alone in such a strange place, and battling with her wits to stay alive, the parallels were uncanny. As he read, the notion of how comfortable that dress would be crossed his mind again. In fact, any dress would probably be more comfortable than what he was currently wearing.

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Steve frowns and looks down at his pants and shirt... they werent that bad... were they?

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Melissa's eyes widen... but she rubs Will's back soothingly. "There there... its alright... Everything will be alright... I promise..."

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Will sniffled against her. "I'm so confused right now. My mind... my body... it's like they're fighting each other, and I don't know what to do."

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Well, Steve's pants were nice, but certainly not as cute as a dress. At least, that's how he would feel as he continued to read. Eventually, Hannah came back in. "Dinner time. How are you holding up?" She came over and smirked at his choice in reading material.

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Steve sighs... putting a bookmark in the book once more and setting it down. "Frustrated... helpless. Your plan is the only one I can see that would work..."

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Melissa hugs Will tight. "Shhh... its alright... Your still you, Will... no matter what happens... hold onto that..."